Developing English Supplementary Speaking Materials Based on the Contextual Teaching and Learning for the Tenth Grade Students of Senior High Schools

Abstract

The objective of this research was to design English supplementary speaking materials based on contextual teaching and learning for grade ten students of senior high schools. The study was educational Research and Development (R & D). The steps of the research was conducting the needs analysis, writing the course grid, developing the first draft of the English supplementary speaking materials, evaluating the draft, and revising and writing the final draft. The instruments of the study were questionnaires and interview guidelines. The needs analysis was conducted in SMA PIRI 1 Yogyakarta. The data from the interview and the observation were analysed qualitatively and those from the questionnaires were analysed quantitatively through the descriptive statistics. The respondents of the research were 10 people of university students. They were the students of English Education Department. The result of the needs analysis showed that the students needed materials for speaking which were attractive and interesting and based on their social life context. To validate the appropriateness of the book, the developed materials book was judged by the expert. The product of this study was supplementary speaking materials entitled ‘Meet and Speak Speaking Materials for High School’ completed with teacher’s guide book.The result of the data computation of the book evaluation from the expert showed that the developed contextual teaching and learning supplementary speaking materials was categorized as good. Thus, it can be concluded that contextual teaching and learning supplementary speaking materials had been appropriate for grade tenth students of Senior High School.